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Getting in shape is so worth it
On my recent trip, I worked out, I walked miles everyday, and I would wake up and do it again. I could easily save money by using public transit and walking, I could carry a backpack with water and sunscreen and whatever else we had. I didn't have to take an Uber, or take a day off to recover from walking 20k steps. I danced for hours at a concert, then walked to the train and back to the hotel. Me feet didn't hurt, my back didn't ache, and my joints never complained.
I love that I'm in shape, that I'm fit. It's so much more than just how you look. I am so capable, and so strong, and not limiting myself. All the workouts, the tracking macros, it's all worth it to be healthy and strong.
Don't like running?
Don't run.
Don't like the gym?
Don't join one.
Don't like kale?
Don't eat it.
Don't like green tea?
Don't drink it.
Health and fitness is individual.
Find healthy habits/food/activities that you DO like, and can sustain longterm, and go get yours!
There's this stereotype that fat people don't/can't exercise because of our fatness, and I want to address this. There are definitely fat people who are active and fit, but there are also, indeed, many fat people who don't fall into that category.
The thing though is that it's not fatness keeping us from exercising.
It's being judged and watched at the gym, having our abilities assumed by our size, not being able to find swimsuits or jogging attire or sports equipment that fit because people literally do not include us into the equation, work out equipment is not made with our bodies in mind, children being turned away from sports teams or clubs because they are fat (things that actually happen), not even being given the chance to play, being bullied and abused by strangers as you do something as common as walk in the park, people assuming you're exercising for the purpose of weight loss, because you hate yourself, never being represented ever in anything sports/exercise related, being told you'll look ugly with your "flab bouncing and moving about," not having the time, energy, or resources to exercise because you're poor (many poor people are fat) and work three jobs, being shamed from ever even leaving your house, not being welcome in active communities, how steeped in diet culture said active communities usually are, being told our whole lives that fat people cannot exercise for pleasure but must exercise to repent for the sin of being fat, and all the other fatphobia that causes fat people to be shamed, ridiculed, and gatekept out of being active.
If it weren't for fatphobia and the abuse of fat people, there would be just as many active fat people as there are active thin people.
So the next time you inwardly shame a fat person for not exercising enough to your liking, think about all the privileges they don't have and how much that fat person has to work through just to be allowed to start the race.